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APPARATUS FOR BILLIARD MARKING.

No. 298,815. j Patented May 20, 1884.

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.ABPARATUSPOVR'BILLIARD MARKING. No. 298,815. I PatentedMay 20, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROWLAND BATEMAN, or BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR BlLLlARD-MARKING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,815, dated May 20, 1884.

Application filed January 9, 1884. (No model.) Patented in Eng and June 28, 1893, No. 3,205.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROWLAND BAT MAN, of Birmingham, England, have invented a new and useful invention of Improvements in Apparatus for Billiard-Marking, which I will now explain.

My invention consists in supplying the apparatus whereby the game of billiards may be accurately marked and clearly and legibly registered on the apparatus, so as to be seen by the players, and at the same time the score is so looked that the marker cannot tamper with it by any means. I also combine with such marker, when desired, a clock, mirror, and

slate for registering various matters, such as the names of the players.

Iwill now explain the invention in conjunction with the accompanying sheet of drawings.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of one of my billiard-markers. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the right-hand side. Fig. 3 is a part section on line A B, looking to the right hand. Fig. 4 is a part section on line C D, looking to the left hand.

The case, as shown in front elevation in Fig. l, is generally made from timber with a polished outside. The recesses e and f would be used for the player playing the ball called spot, and the recesses g and h for the player playing the ball called white. Four bands or tapes run behind these recesses, one for each recess. The right-hand recesses e and 9 have eacha tape numbered with figures 1 to say in black on awhite ground. Then follows a red figure 1, showing that one game of fifty up hasbeen played. Then commence the numbers 1 to 50 again, followed by a figure 2 in red, showing that a second game of fifty up has been played, and 40 so on for as many games as the apparatusmay be desired and designed to register. The lefthand recess f and -h carry on their tapes or bands the numbers 50, 100, 150, and.

so on, increasing by fifty to, say, one thousand. The numbers now registered on the illustrated apparatus for spoti. a, e and f-is 59, and for white 116. The upper right-hand recess, 6, has a tape or band, 6, which passes from spindle 3 across the-front of said recess to spindle 1. The lower righthand recess, 9, has a tape or band, 6 which passes from spindle 4 across the front of said recess to spindle 2. The upper left-hand recess, f, has a tape or band, f, which passes from spindle 6 across the front of said recess to spindle 5. The lower left-hand recess, h, has a tape or band, h, which passes from spindle 8 across the front of said recess to spindle 7. The billiard marker or attendant has a small key to fit spindles 1 and 2, and he always, in registering, turns the same way-4. 0., in the direction of the arrows; indeed, he cannot turn backward. The two larger spindles 3 and 4 are for the sole use of the proprietor, and can only be used when the rollers are unlocked, as hereinafter to be explained. The left-hand rollers 5 and 6 for the recess f, and 7 and 8 for the recess h, are all under the entire command of the marker or attendant, and may be turned backward or forward at pleasure. The spindles 1, 3, 2, and 4 run through the right side behind the front and into a middle partition (shown by dotted lines)-i. a, they are about half the width of the apparatus. The spindles 5, 6, 7, and 8 run through the left side and into the middle partition, which serves as a medium for carrying all the eight spindles.

Now, referring to Fig. 3, we seehow the tapes or bands 6 and e are wound on the spindles. The bulk of the tape or band 6 is on spindle 3, as only 9 has been registered at e recess. It will be noticed that the band e passes around the rollers j and k, which keep-it near the front of the recess, and by the direction it takes in passing round the two spindles 1 and 3 the spindles 1 and 3 are both wound in the opposite direction, both for drawing off spindle 3 and winding on again. The pawl or catch on enters the little disk at on the end of spindles 1 and 2, and is kept in position by any suitable spring, 1), which secures the spindles 1 and 2 from being turned backward, the whole of this part being inside the apparatus; indeed, fixed inside the right-hand end. The proprietor, however, has a key which he applies to the lock 8 of each registering-tape through a" at the end, which lifts the bolt t, as shown in the case of the lower pair of spindles 2 and 4, and thus lifts the catch or pawl out and allows the spindle 3 or 4 to be wound, re-

placing the tape or band upon them. The lock may be applied to any partof the mechanism.

Fig. 4 shows the inside of the other or left hand end, the tapes f and h passing in the direction as shown and as previously explained for the right-hand spindles, so that all turn in one direction. Small springsa are used against disks to keep the tapes and spindles tight in all the spindles.

Anotherset or sets of rollers may be attached to the front to carry the names of the players or other information, such as the rules of the game or other matter.

Of course considerable variations may be made in the details without departure from the principle of the invention. The case used is merely illustrative of what can be done.

hat I claim is- In a game-register, the combination of a case having an opening in its face with a reg istcring-tape arranged within said case and visible through said opening, a pair of spindles to which the ends of said tapes are attached, a notched disk on the lOWllldlllgS1)lIldle, the pawl m, which normally takes into and locks said disk, and the lock 3, the bolt of which bears against the tail of said pawl, so as to free said disk, said spindles and lock be ing accessible from the outside of the case, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I allix my mark in the presence of two witnesses.

his ROWLAND BATEMAN. mark.

\Vitnesses: I

RICHARD Oli'r'rn'rriy, Gimme]; P111011. 

